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April 2009

Volume 22 Number 04 F r e e

The Computer Paper

The Computer Paper Retrospective from: Douglas Alder Graeme Bennett Sean Carruthers Duane Hass Andrew Moore-Crispin Dorian Nicholson David Tanaka

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Contents 10 The Feed All the latest from hubcanada.com 12 Siso Tablo by Hantech Touch-screen interface... without a touch-screen!

14 The Doctor is in Your questions answered by the HUB PC Doctor

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Editors

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Dorian Nicholson dorian@ppublishing.ca

Doug Alder Graeme Bennett Simon Bolduc Michael Callahan Sean Carruthers Duane Hass David Tanaka Eric Waters

Contributing Editors

18 Glory Days Founder Doug Alder looks back on The Computer Paper's Legacy 20 Keepsakes from the Golden Age of Computing David Tanaka on his time at The Computer Paper 24 A Look Back at a Leap Forward Graeme Bennett looks back on an industry

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But enough of the situation, it's a story that has been told before by many publications before today and a story that will be retold by many more publications in the future. You have likely already made up your mind about how you feel about The Computer Paper and have already decided whether or not you are interested in subscribing (and if you haven't, I invite you to give it a shot). Our long-time readers all remember the life-altering developments that we haVe covered over the years and remember what TCP has meant to them, whether it was the advent of the Internet, the breaking of the megapixel barrier for digital cameras or the miniaturization of MP3 players. The Computer Paper has released hundreds of magazines dating back to the eighties, so we've covered it all.

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The first two points, the fact that The Computer Paper has always stood for both computing news and for quality, those won't change. But the third, the fact that our product has always been free, that is something that we are unfortunately forced to alter as part of our own strategy for forging ahead in this stagnating economy. It is a shame not only for our readers, but for those of us who cherish the magazine that we work so hard on every month that we are forced to adopt a new plan of action. But this need not be the end.

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9 9 Philips 80Min 700MB 50 Pack Retail box 1 5 . 9 9 Olympus FE360/FE340/FE3501 3 4 . 9 / 1 9 8 . 9 / 2 3 9 . 9 80 Pin Round IDE Data Cable7 Olympus S840/S850/S1050/SP570239.9/239.9/289.9/419.9 Ritek Ridata DVD-R 8X/Printable0 . 3 9 / . 5 0 Parallel Port Printer Cable 9 .

9 Ritek Ridata Dua Layer 8.5G.3 .

9 9 Olympus E420/E420K/E520K4 5 9 / 5 4 9 . 9 / 6 4 9 . 9 Serial ATA (SATA) Data Cable 2 .

9 9 Sony DSCSW150/DSCW130/DSCW1202 2 9 . 9 / 2 1 8 . 9 / 1 8 9 . 9 Ritek Ridata 6XDVD-RW2 .

4 9 Serial ATA (SATA) Power Cable 2 .

9 9 Sony DSCS780/DSCH50/DSC-13001 8 9 . 9 / 3 9 9 . 9 / 3 9 8 . 9 KEYBOARD/MOUSE KVM 3-in-1 6" Cable 1 2 .

9 Compact Flash 1G/2G/4G1 2 . 9 / 1 6 . 9 / 2 3 . 9 Nosna HDMI Cable 6/10 Foot1 9 . 9 9 / 2 8 . 9 9 PS2 Keyboard/Optical Mouse$ 7 . 9 9 / 6 . 9 9 Compact Flash 75x 2G/4G/8G.1 8 . 9 / 2 5 . 9 / 3 6 . 9 9 Digital KVM Switch HotKey w/cable 2/4port2 8 . 9 9 / 6 8 . 9 9 Fujitsu Keyboard 8729/47261 7 / 5 8 Compact Flash 133x 2.0G/4.0G/8.0/16G.....19.9/26.9/39.9/66.99 EUSSO UKS8204-DO 4 port USB KVM Switch1 4 9 Logitech Deluxe 250 USB Keyboard 1 5 .

9 9 Memory stick Pro Duo 1.0G/2.0G/4.0G.2 1 . 9 / 2 8 . 9 / 4 1 . 9 EUSSO 4 port KVM Stackable 1 1 9 .

9 Logitech V250 Cordless Mouse & Number Pad3 9 . 9 9 Micro Memory Stick(M2) 1G/2G/40.2 1 . 9 / 2 4 . 9 / 3 9 . 9 USB Printer connect to Paranal port adapter2 9 Logitech Internet 350 USB Keyboard1 7 .

9 9 VIA Chipset S-ATA & ATA PCI Adapter w/ RAID support2 4 . 9 9 Logitech Deluxe 250 Desktop Combo(KB + Mouse)1 8 . 9 9 Micro Secure Digital 1.0G/2.0G/40/80....9.99/12.99/19.99/32.99 Mini Secure digital 1.0G/2.0/4.0G.1 2 . 9 9 / 1 5 . 9 9 / 2 5 . 9 9 ST Lab S-ATA PCI Adapter w/RAID support2 4 . 9 9 Logitech Trackball Mouse Marble3 4 .

9 Secure digital 1G/2G/4G/8G/16G...9.99/12.99/18.99/26.99/45.99 Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse Ps2/ Combo9 . 9 9 / 1 2 . 9 9 Secure digital 133x 2G/4G/8G/16015.99/21.99/29.99/49.99 U P G R A D E SPECIAL. $ 8 9 . 9 9 Logitech G5 Laser Gaming Mouse5 4 .

9 XD-Picture Card 1.00/2.0G.2 9 . 9 / 3 6 . 9 9 Logitech G9 Laser Gaming Mouse '8 6 .

9 Rjtech 8" LCD Digital Photo Frame5 4 .

9 9 Goal 3+ Mainboard+AMD Athlon64 3200+CPU Logitech Cordless G15 Gaming Keyboard7 9 . 9 9 (Support Photo,Music Photo&Music Movie, Calender, Alarm) IS761GX 3D Video 0/B (Open PCI-E Video card s l o t Logitech Lx710 wireless Desktop Laser Keyboard+Mouse....64.9 10/100Mb Ethernet/S-ATA/6-Channel 3D Audio 0/B FAX MODEM Logitech Cordless MX 5000 Bluetooth KB & Mouse1 1 9 . 9 9 Aopen 56K Data/Fax v."2 I Mo.em $ 1 9 . 9 Logitech Cordless Keyboard + Optical Mouse3 8 . 9 9 Conexant 56K Data v.92 PCI Modern 1 6 .

9 MS Windows XP Home/Pro$ 1 1 8 . 9 9 / 1 5 9 . 9 9 z MS Windows Vista Home basic/Premium1 0 8 . 9 9 / 1 3 9 . 9 O MS Windows Vista Business/Ultimate1 7 9 . 9 / 2 1 9 . 9 MS Office 2007 Home & Student Edition1 0 9 . 9 MS Office 2007 Basic/SBE/Professional199.9/229.9/339.9 Windows Small business 2003 Server w/5CAL4 8 9 . 9 Win2003 Server Standard w/5CAL8 1 9 .

9 MS Optical Mouse/Wireless1 3 . 9 9 / 2 9 . 9 9 MS Keyboard Internet/Multimedia1 7 . 9 9 / 1 9 . 9 9 MS Ergonomic Value Pack Keyboard+Mouse5 4 . 9 MS Internet Keyboard+Optical Mouse2 9 . 9 9 MS Wireless Desktop 700 Keyboard+ Mouse3 9 . 9 9 .

2 MS Wireless Comfort KB+Laser Mouse4 9 . 9 9

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Systems come with 3 years labor, 1 year part warranty; option o f 1 month free internet access.

All new systems are tested & burned-in for 48 hours before shipping. Financing and leasing are available.

Prices reflect a 3% cash discount and are subject to change without notice. Price effective Apr.03 -Apr.30

AMD Athlon64 L E 1 6 4 0 ( 2 . 6 G ) $429 AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+(2x2.7G) $479 AMD Athlon64 X2 5600+(2x2.9G) $499 AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ 2x3.1G 519 Gagibyte GA-M61SME-S2 Motherboard (GF6100 chipset, Dual-Chennel, SATA, RAID) 2.0G DDR2 RAM 160GB 7200RPM S-ATA 8M Hard drive All-In-One Memory Card Reader nVidia GF6100 Video 0 / B Open PCI-Express 16x Slot LG 22xDVD±RW Dual Layer Drive 6 Channel 5.1 Sound Card 0/B Logitech Deluxe 250 desktop combo (Keyboard + Optical Wheel Mouse) 17" P4-ATX USB2.0-Front Case 10/100Mb Ethernet 0/B Speakers w/Headphone Jack 19" LG W1942TQ Wide Screen Flat LCD (1440 x 900 2ms 8000: SOLERIA- 1 3 8 0

AMD Athlon64 L E 1 6 4 0 ( 2 . 6 G ) $459 AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+(2x2.7G) $499 Phenom Tri-Core 8 6 5 0 (3x2.3G) $559 Phenom Quad-Core 9650 4x2.3G 599 Asus M2N68-AM (AM2) Motherboard (nForce 630a chipset , RAID, Dual-Channel) 2.0G DDR2 RAM 320GB SATA2 16M cache hard drive All-In-One Memory Card Reader nVidia GF7025 Video 0/B Open PCI-Express 16x Slot LG 22xDVD±RW Dual Layer Drive 6 Channel 5.1 Sound Card 0/B Logitech Deluxe 250 desktop combo (Keyboard + Optical Wheel Mouse) 17" P4-ATX USB2.0-Front Case 10/100/1000MB Ethernet 0/B Speakers w/Headphone Jack 19" LG W1942TQ Wide Screen Flat LCD (1440 x •2I m s :4101 SoLERiA-3380

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AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+(2x2.7G) $ 6 3 9 Phenom Tri-Core 8 6 5 0 (3x2.3G) $ 6 9 9 Phenom Quad-Core 9 9 5 0 (4x2.6G) $ 7 6 9 Phenom II uad-Core 940 4x3.0 8 6 Asus M3N78-VM Motherboard (GF8200 Chipset, RAID, Dual Channel) 2.0GB DDR2 RAM 500GB S-ATA2 32MB Cache Hard Drive All-In-One Memory Card Reader nVIDIA GF9500GT Video Card w/1.0G/DVI LG 22xDVD±RW Dual Layer Drive 8 Channel 7.1 Sound Card 0/B Microsoft USB Optical Mouse Microsoft PS2 Keyboard 17" P4-ATX USB2.6-Front Case 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet 0/B 2.1 Speakers w/ Subwoofer 19" LG W1942TQ Wide Screen Flat LCD (1440 x 900, 2ms, 8000:1, ) S O L E R I A - 5 3 813

AMD Athlon64 X2 7750+(2x2.7G) $919 Phenom Tri-Core 8650 (3x2.3G) $959 Phenom Quad-Core 9950 (4x2.6G) $1019 Asus M3N78 Pro(AM2+) Motherboard ( GeForee 8300 Chipset, RAID, Dual Channel) 4.0GB DDR2-800 Dual-channel Kit RAM 1000GB SATA2 32MB Cache Hard Drive All-In-One Memory Card Reader nVIDIA GF9800GT Video Card w/512M DDR3 LG 22xDVD±RW Dual Layer Drive 8-Channel 7.1 Sound Card 0/B IEEE1394 Firewire Ports Microsoft USB Optical Mouse Microsoft P52 Keyboard 17" P4-ATX USB2.0-Front Case 10/100/1000Mb Gigabit Ethernet 0/B Edifier M1550B 6pc 5.1 Speakers 22" LG W2242TQ Wide Screen Flat LCD I I 11 : I I I (1680 SoLERiA-73130

NETWORKING SOUND/SPEAKER MOTHERBOARD ASUS (AM2) M2N68-AM/M2N-LR$ 7 4 . 9 9 / 2 4 4 . 9 9 Impression 10/100Mb Ethernet Card$ 9 . 9 9 1 . 0 5 9 9 . . 9 9 PowerData PC Sound Card 3.1/5.1 $ 1 4 / 1 6 USB External Sound Card 2 9 .

9 ASUS (AM2) M2N-MX SE Plus 6 9 .

9 9 Asus WirelessG 125Mb WL-520GU router w/Printer server Creative SB Audigy SE 7.13 6 .

9 ASUS M3A78/M3A78-Pro 1 0 8 . 9 9 / 1 2 9 . 9 9 Asus Wireless N Multi-function WL500W Router Creative SB X-FI Xtreme Sound5 6 .

9 ASUS M3A78-EM/M3A78-CM1 0 9 . 9 9 / 9 9 . 9 9 Asus Wireless PCI WL-138G-V2/VVL130N2 9 . 9 / 7 4 . 9 4 .

9 Asus M3A78-T1 7 4 .

9 9 TP-Link 10/100Mb Switch 5/8/16 Port2 2 . 9 9 / 2 8 . 9 9 / 5 4 . 9 9 Creative SB X-FI Xtreme Audio retail box6 ASUS M3N78-Pro/M3N78-VM1 3 2 99/99 99 TP-Link 10/100Mb Switch 24/48 Port7 8 . 9 9 / 1 2 9 . 9 9 Creative SB X-FI Extreme Gamer . 1 1 4 . 9 9 ASUS M3N-1-IT-DX-HD/M3N-HT-DX-MP2 3 4 . 9 9 / 2 1 9 . 9 9 TP-Link wirelessG 340GD/wirelessN 841ND Route...29.99/64.99 Creative SB X-FI Titanium Fatality Pro PCI-E 1 4 9 . 9 9 Asus Maximus FprmularX38/II Formula P45 2 7 9 99/319 9 TP-Link PCI Adapter Wireless G/wireless N 2 4 . 9 9 / 4 8 . 9 9 Creative SB X-FI Titanium Fatality Champion PCI-E2 0 9 . 9 9 2 9 .

9 ASUS P5SD2-VM-SE/P5KPL-AM 6 4 . 9 9 / 7 9 . 9 9 TP-Link USB Adapter Wireless G/wireless N2 7 . 9 9 / 4 8 . 9 9 Creative SB X-FI Elite Pro3 Creative Labs MuVo T100 Slim MP3 Player 2.0G2 8 . 9 9 Asus P5E3-WS-Pro/P5E3-PremiumlWF3 5 9 . 9 9 / 3 4 9 . 9 9 D -Link Wireless DI624 ExtremG 108Mb Router4 9 . 9 9 2.1 Speaker with subwoofer/2 pc Speaker 1 1 . 9 / 5 . 9 9 ASUS P5N-D/P5K1 6 9 . 9 9 / 1 3 9 . 9 D -Link DIR-625 Wireless-N Router7 9 .

9 ASUS P5N-T-Deluxe NF78012 6 4 .

9 9 D -Link DWA552 Extern N Wireless Rangebooster PCI 6 9 . 9 Altec Lansing VS3251 5.1 Spk. w/Wireless remote7 4 . 9 9 Logitech X5408 4 .

9 9 ASUS P5NT-WS/P5N72-T-Premium2 5 4 . 9 / 2 5 9 . 9 D -Link DWL-G630 54Mb PCMCIA LAN Wireless3 4 . 9 Logitech Z5500 THX 1000W 5.1 Speakers 2 9 9 . 9 ASUS P5N73-AM 7 4 .

9 9 D -Link wireless LAN PCI DWL-G510 54Mb4 5 .

9 RJTECH RJ-800055 5.1Soundbar Pro actor2 9 8 . 9 ASUS P5Q/P5Q-Deluxe/P5QL-Pro 1 5 9 . 9 9 / 2 5 4 . 9 9 / 11 9 . 9 9 D -Link wireless LAN PCI DWL-G520 108Mb5 2 .

9 Asus P5Q-E/P5Q-EM/P5Q-EM-DO1 9 4 . 9 / 1 7 9 . 9 / 1 6 8 . 9 D -Link wireless LAN PCMCIA DWL-G650 108Mb3 9 . 9 STORAGE ASUS P5Q-Premium/P503-DX-WF2 7 5 . 9 9 / 2 7 9 . 9 9 D -link 24 Port DES-1024D9 9 .

9 IDE (Parallel-ATA) 7200RPM Hard drive with 2MB buffer cache: ASUS P5Q SE/P5QL/P5Q31 3 8 . 9 9 / 1 1 2 . 9 9 / 1 8 9 . 9 9 D -Link Switch 8 port DSS-8+/16 port DSS-16+4 9 / 7 8 80G/250G.$ 4 9 . 9 9 / 6 6 . 9 9 ASUS P5Q-Turbo/P5Q-turbo-Pro 1 6 4 . 9 9 / 1 7 4 . 9 9 D -Link Gigabit Switch 5 port DGS-1005D 4 9 .

9 IDE (Parallel-ATA) 7200RPM Hard drive with 8MB buffer cache: Asus P6T/P6T-Deluxe/P6T Deluxe-OC 304.99/374.99/414.99 D -Link Gigabit Switch 8 port M S -1008D 6 9 .

9 160/320/400/500G6 4 . 9 9 / 7 9 . 9 9 / 8 4 . 9 9 / 1 0 4 . 9 9 ASUS P6T-Deluxe-V2/P6T-WS-Pro 3 6 4 . 9 9 / 4 0 9 . 9 9 D -Link Gigabit Switch 16 port DGS-1016D 1 9 9 . 9 9 WD Black Dual-processor 32m cache 500G/1T8 2 . 9 9 / 1 4 4 . 9 9 Asus RAMpage Intel X48 Chipset/EXT 3 6 9 . 9 / 3 4 9 . 9 9 D -Link Gigabit Switch 24 port DGS-1024D 2 3 9 . 9 9 SATA 8M 80G/160G/250G4 4 . 9 9 / 5 1 . 9 9 / 5 9 . 9 9 Asus RAMpagell Intel X48 Chipset-EXT/GE4 8 4 . 9 9 / 3 0 8 . 9 9 Linksys 8 port Gigabite Switch SD20088 9 .

9 9 SATAI6M 320/5006 2 . 9 9 / 7 4 . 9 9 ASUS Strikerll NF78013 3 4 .

9 Linksys 16 port Gigabite Switch SR20162 1 9 . 9 9 SATA 32M 500G/750G/1TB7 9 . 9 9 / 1 0 9 . 9 9 / 1 2 4 . 9 9 ASUS Striker!! EX/NSE3 0 9 . 9 / 3 3 4 . 9 Linksys 24 port Gigabite Switch SR20242 8 9 . 9 9 SATA 32M Cache 1.5TB 1 7 9 .

9 9 945GZT-M/945P-A(3.0)7 8 / 8 9 .

9 Linksys wireless PCI card WMP54G5 4 .

9 WD Rapter 10000rpm 150G300G.2 4 8 . 9 / 3 4 4 . 9 Foxconn 760GXK8MC-RS/K8M890-M2MA6 9 / 7 9 Linksys WUSB54G wireless USB card4 4 .

9 VIDEO PC Partner 915PAS7-A47 i915 chipset Fireware7 9 Linksys WRT54G2 54Mb wireless G router 5 9 .

9 Asus PCI-E EAH4550 512M DDR3 DVI/HDMI $ 7 9 . 9 9 Gagibyte GA-M61SME-S2 Am2 6 4 .

9 9 Linksys WRT300N wireless -N Router1 1 4 . 9 9 Asus DDR2 RAM EAH4650 512M9 4 .

9 9 Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6/X48-DS42 9 9 . 9 9 / 2 5 4 . 9 Linksys WMP300N wireless -N PCI Adapter8 4 . 9 9 Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S26 4 .

9 Linksys WUSB300N wireless U S B Adapter8 4 . 9 9 Asus DDR3 RAM EAH4850 512M/1G 1 9 9 . 9 9 / 2 4 4 . 9 9 Gigabyte GAM57SLI-S4/GAM595SLI-S51 2 4 / 2 0 9 Linksys WPC300N wireless -N PCMCIA Adapter8 4 . 9 9 Asus DDR5 RAM EAH4870 512M/1.0G2 5 9 . 9 9 / 2 9 9 . 9 9 Asus DDR5 RAM EAH4870 4870x2 2.0G 6 1 9 . 9 9 MSI P35-NEO-CF/X48C- Platinum9 9 9/259 9 Netgear 10/100MB Switch 16 port FS116NA7 9 . 9 9 3 9 .

9 9 MSI K9N-Diamond/K9N-SLI-Platium 1 9 9 / 1 4 5 Netgear Gigabit switch GS105NA/GS108NA5 9 99/89 99 Asus ENGTX280 OC 1.0G DDR34 8 9 .

9 9 MONITOR N e t g e a r Gigabit switch JGS516NA/JGS524NA209.99/289.99 Asus ENGTX285 TOP 1.0G DDR34 Asus ENGTX295 1.0G DDR36 4 9 .

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Cable Assembly 3/6/10/15ft4 / 5 / 6 / 6 . 9 Acer LCD 17" X173WB/AL1717FBD$ 1 5 6 . 9 / 1 7 2 . 9 Cable Assembly 25/50/75/100ft 9 / 1 4 / 1 9 / 2 4 AT AGP TV-put DVI 512M 1650Pro8 9 .

9 9 Acer 19" LCD X193WB/20" X203WB1 5 4 . 9 / 1 7 9 . 9 CAT5e Cable 50/75/100/1000ft9 / 1 2 / 1 5 / 7 9 AT AGP 8X HD2600 512M DDR2 DVI 9 9 .

9 9 Acer 20" P201WD2 0 4 .

9 AT AGP 8X HD3650 512M DDR3 DVI 1 1 9 . 9 9 Acer 22" X223WBD1 8 9 .

9 P R I N T E R / S C A N N E R AT AGP 8X HD3850 512M DDR3 DVI 1 7 4 . 9 9 Acer 24" X243WBD/26" X263WBD3 1 9 . 9 / 3 7 9 . 9 Brother 240C/440CN/465CN$ 8 9 . 9 / 1 2 9 . 9 / 1 2 9 . 9 AT HD4550 512M DDR3/DVI/HDMI7 9 .

9 9 Acer LCD TV 32" AT3220A 1366x768 8ms DV5 9 9 . 9 Canon IP1800/3500/4500/1P1002 4 . 9 9 / 8 4 . 9 / 1 3 9 . 9 / 2 7 9 . 9 AT HD4850 DDR3 512M/1.0G.1 9 9 . 9 9 / 2 1 9 . 9 9 Daytek LCD Touch Screen 15"/17"5 9 9 / 7 6 9 Canon 1P6700D/Pro9000/Pro9500 1 9 9 . 9 / 4 7 9 . 9 / 8 4 9 . 9 AT HD4870 DDR5 512M/1.0G.2 4 9 . 9 9 / 2 8 9 . 9 9 KDS 19" K-92MDWB 1000:1 5ms Wide screen1 6 9 . 9 Large format IPF5100/6100/IPF81002 2 9 9 / 3 1 4 9 / 6 4 9 9 AT HD4870x2 2.0G DDR5/DVI/TV-out 5 8 9 . 9 9 KDS 22" K22B2W 1000:1 5ms 2 1 9 .

9 9 Large Format IPF500/IPF610/1PF7101 6 9 9 / 2 5 4 9 / 4 1 6 9 eVGA GF6200 256M DVI TV-out AGPx85 8 . 9 9 KDS 22" K2237MDWB 1000:1 5ms DVI2 0 9 . 9 Canon MP-140/210/9603 8 . 9 9 / 4 8 . 9 9 / 3 8 9 . 9 9 eVGA PCI-E 7200GS TV-out, DVI 256M 4 4 .

9 KDS 24" K-24MDWB4 0 9 .

9 Canon MFC 3240 Laser Printer,Scanner,Copier, Fax 1 1 9 . 9 9 eVga PCI-E GF9500GT DDR2 512M/1G.9 2 . 9 9 / 9 9 . 9 9 KDS 26" K-2626MDHWB 1000:1, 5ms 4 1 9 . 9 Canon MFC Print/Copy/Scan/Fax MP530/MX300....78.99/59.99 eVGA GF9600GT 512M 1 3 8 .

9 LG L1942T 4:3 1280x1024 2ms 8000:1 VGA/DVI1 9 9 . 9 9 Epson CD printer R280/1900/24001 0 4 . 9 / 4 9 9 . 9 / 7 2 9 eVga E-GeF9800 GTX 512M 2 1 9 .

9 9 LG 19" W1942TQ 2ms 8000:1 VGA/DVI I1 5 4 . 9 9 Epson CX4450/7450/84006 9 . 9 / 8 9 . 9 / 1 0 4 . 9 eVga GTX260 896M DDR32 9 9 .

9 9 LG 20"WL2042TQ 1680x1050 2ms 8000:11 8 4 . 9 Brother Laser HL-2140 2400x600 dpi 23ppm6 8 . 9 9 eVGA E-GFGTX285 1.0G.4 4 4 .

9 LG 22" W2242TQ 1680x1050 8000:1 2ms 1 8 9 . 9 9 Brother HL 2070N/5250DN1 0 9 . 9 / 2 4 9 . 9 eVGA E-GFGTX295 1.0G.6 4 9 .

9 LG 24" L246WH 1920x1200 5ms 2000:1HDMI3 5 9 . 9 Brother Color Laser 4040CN/4050CDN3 4 9 . 9 / 4 2 9 . 9 Palit HD4870x2 2.0G DDR56 1 9 .

9 9 Samsung 17" 723N LCD 8000:1 5ms1 7 9 .

9 Okidata Color Laser C3400N/C5650N3 3 9 . 9 / 4 2 9 . 9 Palit GTX280 1.0G DDR35 3 9 .

9 9 Samsung 19" 920WM 700:1 5ms1 8 9 .

9 Okidata Color Laser C5800LDN/C6050N7 5 9 . 9 / 4 7 9 TV Tuner w/Remote2 9 .

9 9 Samsung 19" 943B2 8 8 .

9 Okidata DOT Martrix 186/186S/320T2 6 9 / 3 1 9 / 3 4 9 Gigabite GT-PTV-AF-RH-GB1 Global TV Card4 8 . 9 9 Samsung LCD 943N 2 1 9 .

9 Samsung Laser 2010/3051N/3561N6 9 . 9 / 1 7 4 . 9 / 6 1 9 . 9 External USB TV-Tuner5 9 .

9 Samsung LCD 920WM1 8 9 .

9 Samsung Color Laser CLP-350N 256M Ethernet2 1 9 . 9 9 Diret TV Box watch TV without computer6 9 .

9 Samsung LCD 22" 2220WM 5ms 1000:12 1 9 . 9 Brother Toner TN 250/350/460/5602 9 . 9 / 5 9 / 5 9 / 5 9 Hauppauge WinTV-USB2/PVR-1508 9 . 9 / 8 9 . 9 Samsung LCD 24" 2443BW 20000:1, 5ms w/HAS3 2 4 . 9 9 Canon Toner w/Drum E40/A30/S35/FX-36 9 / 6 9 / 5 4 / 5 4 Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150/PVR-150N6 9 . 9 / 6 9 . 9 Samsung LCD 24" 245T 1500:1 6ms6 3 8 . 9 9 HP Toner w/Drum C7115A/C7115X/Q2612A4 9 / 5 4 / 5 9 Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1600/HVR-160R1 0 8 . 9 / 1 2 8 . 9 Samsung LCD 27" 275T Plus 3000:1 6ms8 6 9 . 9 9 HP Toner w/Drum C92298A/C3903A/C4092A4 9 / 4 9 / 4 9 Hauppauge WinTV-PVR500(2xTuner)/HVR9501 7 8 . 9 9 / 9 9 . 9 Samsung 30" 305T 100:1 6ms 2560x16001 2 6 4 . 9 Panasonic Toner FA76/UG3313/UG33501 9 . 9 / 7 5 / 7 5 Zotac NVIDIA GF 9500GT 1.0G DDR2 PCI-E9 9 . 9 9 ViewSonic 17" VA70313/19" VA1903WMB1 6 9 . 9 / 1 6 9 . 9 9 Samsung Toner w/Drum ML1610D/1210/1710D6 4 . 9 Zotac NVIDIA GF 9600GT 512MB DDR3 PCI-E1 3 4 . 9 9 ViewSonic 19" VA1926W1 8 9 .

9 Samsung Toner Drum SF4500/SF5100/SCX4216D6 4 . 9 Zotac NVIDIA GF 9600GT 1GB DDR3 PCI-E1 5 9 . 9 9 ViewSonic LCD 19" VP95ONG1930WM 2 9 9 / 2 3 5 Samsung Toner Drum SCX-4521D36 9 Zotac NVIDIA GF 8800GT 1.0G DDR3 PCI-E 1 5 9 . 9 9 ViewSonic LCD 19" VX1940WNX2035WM1 7 8 . 9 / 2 6 9 S O F T W A R E Zotac NVIDIA GF 9800GT 512MB DDR3 PCI-E1 5 9 . 9 9 ViewSonic LCD VG2030WM/VVX2035WM2 5 9 . 9 / 2 1 9 . 9 McAfee Virusscan 2009 $ 1 8 .

9 9 Zotac NVIDIA GTX260 896MB DDR3 PCI-E 3 1 9 . 9 9 ViewSonic LCD 22" VX2240W2 5 9 .

9 (McAfee AntivirusScan 2008+ Software Firewall + Antispyeware) Zotac NVIDIA GTX285 1.0G DDR3 PCI-E 4 5 4 . 9 9 ViewSonic 28" VX2835WM6 2 9 .

9 McAfee Internet Security Suite 2009 2 8 .

9 9 Zotac NVIDIA GTX295 1.792G DDR3 PCI-E 5 9 9 . 9 9 HDMI 4 Port Switch w/Wireless Remote Controller4 9 . 9 9 Norton Antivirus 20092 6 .

9 9 HDMI 4 Port Switch w/Wireless Remote Controller4 9 . 9 9 RJtech 8" LCD Digital Photo Frame5 4 .

9 9 Norton Internet Security 20092 9 .

9 9 RJtech 8" LCD Digital Photo Frame5 4 .

9 9 (Support Photo,Music,Photo&Music,Movle,Calender,Alarm) (Norton Antivirus + Software Firewall + Anti-Spam + Anti-Popup) (Support Photo, Music, Photo&Music,Movie,Calender,Alarm)

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Industry Impact Even as we were just starting up The Computer Paper in Vancouver in the late 1980s, we knew we were having an impact on the industry. Articles by one of our writers, Roedy Green were particularly popular. His articles were always very in depth, but still very understandable and people were actually reading them. In particular, I remember one month he took issue with a particular brand of hard drive.

Apparently the people had been raging over the high failure rates on this particular hard drive. He trash-talked the drives and sales dropped off substantially. Later, one of our major advertisers told us that they had been stuck with a warehouse full of these drives because of our article.

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Over the years, we made a concerted effort to encourage our advertisers to move beyond simple list style advertising, to include more graphic'elements. In those days, we were creating most of the ads in the paper, because not all of our advertisers had desktop publishing capabilities. This often led to last-minute changes and the occasional error. I recall one ad getting printed that promoted "floppy dicks" for sale.

As the publication grew across the country, our relevance took on new stature.

Beginning in Vancouver in 1988, we launched an Alberta edition in mid-1989. In 1990, an office was opened in Winnipeg to launch a Prairie edition, with distribution in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Our Toronto edition, when it rolled off the presses in 1993, started to get us real attention with the national advertisers, but they still wanted more, a truly national publication. An Eastern edition was started in 1994, with Ottawa, Montreal and Atlantic sections, finally giving us national scope. With five editions in place, we started to have regular advertising by the big players of the day like IBM, Microsoft and Corel. Through the mid-90s and into the new millennium, The Computer Paper became a truly national publication.

This monthly circulation didn't include our purchase of Toronto Computes! in February of 1994. The year of our entry into the Toronto market, we were able to purchase our major competitor from owner,David Carter. Despite rumors that we might shut this publication down, our intention was the opposite. We wanted to have more frequency, and so pushed the two publications' distribution dates apart by two weeks and started publishing versions of the Computes! titles twice monthly in the major markets. (Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa and Montreal).

These were the boom times.

Reader Impact By the end of my term as editor, our circulation of just The Computer Paper had hit 357,000 monthly. With an estimated three readers per copy, we dreamed we might have a readership of over a million people per month in Canada. Our goal was to provide a Canadian perspective on the software and hardware revolution that was happening around us.

In those ten years, from the first mockup of The Computer Paper on a kitchen table in December 1987 to my last staff party in September 1997, it is my estimation that Canada underwent a revolution in its appetite for computer information. Starting from aperiod when perhaps 10 per cent of the population was interested in computers, by 1997, it seemed that everyone was paying attention. This change paralleled the development of the Internet, the improving ease of use of software and the increasing power and storage capabilities of the computers themselves.

In the years since, I have met many people who have talked about what a significant role The Computer Paper played in educating them about computers.

Regular articles on how to buy a computer or select the right software, benchmark testing of computers, monitors and printers helped people make good decisions with their purchases.

My Favorite Issues Like all good publishers my favorite issue was always the next one. It would always have better and more interesting editorial with less mistakes and more ads.

Issues that I remember are, perhaps strangely, not big technological events, but rather personal ones. There was the edition where we put the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the cover, because my son was in love with the movie. Our budget did not often allow for the cost of professional models and photo shoots, so we would often enlist staff or relatives to be on the cover. The issues with my kids as photo models — three-out of my four kids made it onto the cover — stand out. Our youngest child's birth was announced in one of my editorials. "One more new product we left out of our What's New section. This new 8.6 pound chest-top model was announced recently by my wife. He is a zero-wait state screamer. (He cries if he doesn't get fed.)"

Great Memories The best memories I have of my days at The Computer Paper, are largely to do with great times spent with the people who built the publication. There are too many people who helped to mention them all, but my thanks go out to people like editors David Tanaka, Graeme Bennett, Jeff Evans, and Mara Gulens, our associate publishers Had Singh Khalsa, Suzanne and Patricia Fitzgerald, Einar Murchison, our

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The things I don't miss about life at The Computer Paper are the never-ending deadlines, the cross country travel and living my life in the public eye. The things I do miss are working with some amazingly smart and funny people and the constant stimulation of an industry inventing itself as it went along.

My era at the helm of The Computer Paper was an optimistic time. We believed we could do no wrong and everything was bigger and better each issue. The computer industry was still growing rapidly. Every week brought new and interesting things to look at and write about. The world wasn't deluged by the information available on the Internet, so we felt special and listened to. We were vaguely aware that we might be cutting down too many trees, but it hadn't occurred to us that all the rapid product turnover meant a vast swath of used consumer electronics full of toxic ingredients was heading towards the landfill, or to be dangerously "recycled" in villages in China. Global warming wasn't on many people's horizon and whatever recessions we hit seemed very minor.

The changes HUB: The Computer Paper is going through now, seem to be just one more step in the evolution of an important publication. The computer industry icon, PC Magazine, dropped their print edition in January of this year and have gone to the web and an electronic edition. I even picked up Masthead Magazine, the Canadian magazine industry chronicle, the other day and they were announcing that their publication is going all electronic.

Such irony. The Internet has changed everyone's world and publications are making the changes they think are necessary to survive. I encourage you all to consider a subscription to keep tracking the changes and news in the Canadian computer industry. I know I am planning to get one.

Douglas Alder, Founding Editor and Publisher of The Computer Paper Douglas Alder is President of HomeBase Software Publishing Ltd. in Vancouver. HomeBase Software specializes in FileMaker database application development. He can be reached at www.hbase.net Tel 604 961-1069, or by email at doug@hbase.net

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Keepsakes from the Golden Age of Computing David Tanaka on his time at The Computer Paper Ihave a couple of totes gathering dust in the back yard shed. They contain an almost-complete set of The Computer Paper, from Vol. 1 No. 1, right up to last issue in 2003 when the original TCP was put to pasture. Seemed like a good idea at the time to keep my own personal morgue.

Iworked for TCP for a little more than 10 years, from the early 1990s to 2003, moving from news editor to editor to editorial director. What a great time to be tracking the personal computer industry. You had to be sleepwalking if you couldn't find an interesting story or three every day. The rise of Windows, Moore's Law constantly verified in startlingly short product improvement cycles, the rise of the World Wide Web, the dot-com bubble, Apple's constant Apple-ness...

Ihave another collection of stuff that runs parallel to my time at TCP, which I amassed quite by accident. They came mostly from Comdex and other tech trade shows. Chachka jars became a fixture at all the exhibitors' booths, filled with mints, gum, pens, and various flashing baubles. If you were a tech journalist you got the deluxe chachkas. I'd often give these things away, but a few I'd keep and over the years those few things turned into a box of stuff.

Iwent through that box as I wrote this article and I was surprised at the variety of company logos and product brands. I suppose you could group these into a few. categories: The mighty that time passed by Under this category fall the Commodore Amiga solar calculator shaped like a 3.5inch floppy disk (which still works); a musical keychain from Digital Equipment Corp.; abeach towel with the X-Tree Pro logo printed on it; pins for Compuserve, OS/2, MGI,AST and Aldus PageMaker 5.0; plush toys shaped like cute dragons from

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Sceptre, a floppy disk wallet from Borland... Well, you get the idea. I have a few pens and such from Learning Company, Edmark and companies like that. The early '90s was the golden age of educational software development with very good retail titles continually hitting the market. Suffice it to say I feel a slight twinge of nostalgia when I see that kind of contents of the "three for $9.99" software dump bins.

Dot-corn and Y2K Aperson with a great sense of humour sent me his antidote to the Y2K fear frenzy.

It was a toque with MY2K? (my toque eh?) knitted into it. Only in Canada would that make sense. I also have large roach broach representing the Y2K "bug."

Alot of dot-coms didn't make it out of the gate, and I have bric-a-brac from various companies whose business plans I heard but can can no longer remember. Some survived for a while — if you live in Toronto you might recall empori.com, a hard goods access point that received stuff you bought online. I have a miniature empori.com shopping cart from the launch event. Others, like eBay just got bigger.

The over-sized T-shirt I have from the launch event of eBay.ca presents interesting symbolism. I suppose my prize in this category is a pristine coil-bound notebook with the WorldCom logo on the cover.

Still in the game Many of the baubles are logo'd with companies that are still around in one form or another. Microsoft, of course. I have pens, utility knives, clothing, book bags and even plush toys (the MSN butterfly) that mark various product introductions. I have a couple of Swiss army knives that HP cleverly used to roll out multi-function devices, along with knock-off knives from other companies with the same multi-purpose

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Everyday utility Some of the chachkas have taken on a life beyond the product launches they initially served. There are stainless steel mugs I use daily bearing Palm, nVidia, Fujifilm and other logos. A couple of ancient IBM AS/400 mugs with a "Life in the Fast Lanes" message that have taken on talisman status. They've accompanied us on our road trips across the country for more than a decade; we wouldn't leave home without them. The various bags have continued life as book bags or environmentally friendly alternatives to plastic grocery bags.

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In those days, even a CRT monitor cost several hundred dollars, and a 20-megabyte hard drive cost thousands. One had to choose carefully. I had considered the lowcost Vic 20, but it seemed too toy-like, too limited. At the other end of the spectrum, the $10,000 Apple Lisa computer was the hot new•technology of the day. Magic Desk, dubbed "Commodore's answer to Apple's Lisa," launched at CES in 1983.

Microsoft released Bob, aiming at roughly the same goal for PCs, in 1995.

As the 1980s wore on, I worked with many different models of increasingly graphics- and music-centric computers including Commodore 64, Macintosh, Atari ST,Amiga, and various IBM-compatible machines — which suffered from laughably archaic graphics and sound (and memory architecture) during this period. Still, the IBM-PC and Macintosh increasingly dominated both business and home markets as the '80s drew on.

I'd pretty much given up on Commodore and Atari by 1988/89, having watched these companies blunder their way into market insignificance during these years.

PCs, since the advent of VGA in 1987, no longer looked so artistically challenged, and the millions-of-colours luxury of the Mac II (or the "wicked fast" 40 MHz Mac Ilfx to which I eventually upgraded in 1990) was truly a giant step forward in my technological journey — and the fact that my earning potential almost instantly doubled eased the sticker shock considerably.

As the 1990s dawned, with the help of the PostScript imagesetters at my local service bureau and powerful tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and FreeHand, I was finally able to compete with that damned robot at that fateful tradeshow.

With the help of increasingly powerful MIDI workstations and professional quality music publishing tools such as Coda Software's Finale or Sonus SuperScore (which I helped create), I was able to create great looking sheet-music scores, as well.

And so it was that I was hired as the computer music expert at a musical instrument retailer, and tasked with creating and placing the company's ads in appropriate publications. In addition to ads placed elsewhere, I soon discovered that ads placed in The Computer Paper generated good results. The Computer Paper had been growing in reputation, readership, and size since its inception in February 1988.

• One fateful day, when TCP's account rep dropped by to pick up my latest ad copy, he looked at my ad layout and asked me if I'd ever considered doing this full time.

We got to talking and he invited me to drop by the paper's office for a chat with the boss. In short, they made me an offer I couldn't refuse, I demonstrated an interest and aptitude at writing about computer technologies, and ended up working at The Computer Paper for nearly a decade. It was truly the most exciting and interesting work experience of my life — a five-year stint at Microsoft since then notwithstanding.

Graeme Bennett, Managing Editor, Senior Editor and Editorial Director, 1990 - 1999 Graeme Bennett currently shares a home in Redmond, Washington with his family, several musical instruments, and far more computers than he really needs, running various flavours of Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. A Playstation 3 is more powerful than any of them.

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The Word from the TCP Test Lab Sean Carruthers on his time with The Computer PaperMy journey with HUB: The Computer Paper actually started up a side road.

I first came to Toronto in 1998 to take a job writing the monthly Test Lab feature for Canada Computer Paper's reseller magazine, Canadian Computer Wholesaler. I had been writing a regular column on web site optimization for CCW from my small-town home in Manitoba, and when the Test Lab position became available, I applied for it thinking there was no way I'd end up with the job. Boy, was I in for a shock!

Ihad been earning my living up until that point slinging compact discs to disaffected youth and hip adults, while writing about music and computer technology on the side. So, writing about technology full time was like a dream come true to me. You mean they're going to let me play with a bunch of computers and cameras and they're going to PAY me, too? Awesome!

Of course, there was a lot of work involved, too. I soon came to realize that doing a "lab" on a particular category of technology meant running a lot of tests, sometimes repeatedly, to make sure that the tests were as apples-to-apples as they could possibly be. Computers would be put through a process called "benchmarking," which meant running a whole series of automated tasks using special applications designed to quantify differences in performance and capabilities. And sometimes the software was a bit cranky, causing entire tests to have to be re-run after waiting overnight for the results.

It was fun, but it was certainly a lot more involved than I first thought.

Imagine my surprise when three months later I was asked to step up into the big chair as the Test Lab Editor of The Computer Paper. For a few months, that would be in addition to continuing the lab testing for CCW, which seemed like it might actually finish me off. On the other hand, it would give me the opportunity to work regularly with David Tanaka, the nicest editor you could ever hope to have. With a certain level of apprehension (about the workload, of course), I jumped in with both feet, and never looked back.

From there on in, it was a regular cycle of testing the products that everyone wanted in-depth information about. Every few months it was another desktop computer roundup, and every so often I'd do a roundup on notebooks, which were very much a luxury item. We got to test laser printers, inkjet printers, multifunction printers, and solid ink printers. We did CD readers, CD burners, DVD readers and DVDburners. We did hard drives, Zip drives, and magneto-optical drives. I even got to look at digital cameras when they first broke the one-megapixel barrier!

Of course, having shiny new technology around the Lab also attracted some problems. One regular occurrence during my years of doing the Test Lab feature: my colleague Nestor Gula (editor of Toronto Computes!) kept wandering into the Lab, offering to do a "drop test' on anything expensive we had on hand. I never took him up on it, but in hindsight, I'm wondering if I should have. It would have added a bit more drama to the Lab reports!

I saw my fair share of changes at The Computer Paper. Technology has a bad habit of changing rapidly, and during my time in the Lab we started to shift some or our focus towards the growing consumer electronics category. We weren't the only ones to make this shift: by 2003 the long-running computer trade show Comdex decided to pack it in when most of the companies that used to participate in the show jumped ship for the burgeoning Consumer Electronics Show (CES), instead.

That change was also a good part of the reason The Computer Paper became HUB: Digital Living in 2003. At that point, people wanted more multimedia and less laser printers. And with the web-ification of the world, most readers wanted articles that were less sprawling. While you'd think having to write fewer words would be easier, it wasn't: it became a huge battle trying to figure out what could be safely left out... and believe me, I always pushed the limits, trying to leave in as much as I possibly could. (Sorry, Megan!)

My relationship with the magazine changed abruptly in 2004 when our parent company restructured our division completely out of existence. Thankfully, HUB: Digital Living was rescued by Piccolo Publishing, eventually went through a full-circle metamorphosis and emerged as HUB: The Computer Paper.

Me?I became a full-time freelancer at that point, which came with a new set of challenges, including: How much coffee can] drink in one day before I start to hallucinate? Can I really call it "work" if I'm in my pyjamas until 5 p.m.? How many courier packages full of review products can I receive before my neighbors start to wonder if I'm up to something shady?

Thankfully, I found my place in the world of technology television thanks to the folks at G4TechTV Canada, who were just in the process of creating a bunch of new Canadian technology content. That led to a full-time gig creating video content with butterscotch.com, which is now staffed with some of my favourite people from both G4TechTV and the old Canada Computer Paper team. And to think this all started way back when.

Speaking of which, I do want to take this opportunity to thank Grace Casselman, the editor of Canadian Computer Wholesaler, who took a chance on me back in 1998 on the basis of the handful of columns I had turned in to her as a freelancer.

Unfortunately, Grace passed away in 2006, and I don't think I ever got the chance to thank her properly for taking that chance on me, so thank you, Grace. Your consideration, kindness and patience played a big part in shaping who I am today, and you are missed.

Sean Carruthers, Test Lab Editor 1998 - 2003 Sean Carruthers is a Senior Producer at butterscotch.com, a technology website dedicated to helping people better understand and use technology. He is also an alumni of the G4TechTV Canada shows Call For Help and The Lab with Leo Laporte.

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The Computer Paper Retrospective A TCP timeline by Dorian Nicholson As a relative newcomer to the world of tech journalism, it was a bit imposing to get my big editorial start with HUB: The Computer Paper in the latter half of 2008. I started earlier in the year as a web editor, learning the ropes with the help of Andrew Moore-Crispin, who preceded me as editor of the magazine. Things were fast-paced, as they are at most publications, and I learned more than I ever expected about computers, consumer electronics and the business of running a national magazine in just my first few months at The Computer Paper.

The times change quickly, and I witnessed more than a couple of great events unfold in the world of technology in what seems like one of the shortest years of my life. I started at The Computer Paper in April of 2008, and this issue marks my one year anniversary of sorts for writing and working for HUB. In this short time, I witnessed the release of countless computers, cameras and video games, and got to meet and speak with people that were involved in the development, testing and release of those products. For me it was a dream come true. In my teenage years I had always wanted to know what it was like to test computer products and video games and to report on all of the latest and coolest gadgetry. It seemed like an impossible aspiration at the time, a gig that was too cool to actually get. So many people in my circle of friends and colleagues wanted in on that and wanted to be doing exactly what The Computer Paper was doing, to be telling people about what the next earth-shattering development was going to be and why it was important.

I feel fortunate to have gotten on board and experienced what it was like to be in the industry, soak up some of the experiences and meet many of the contacts that I maintain to this day. But what I didn't fully appreciate until researching this piece was that the feeling I got from working at The Computer Paper — being at the epicentre of all of these tech developments — was the very same feeling that all of my

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predecessors felt when they sat in the editor's chair. However, their stories stretch back to before I even considered writing for a tech magazine and, in some cases, to before I was even aware of what a "personal computer" really was. They helped me and countless other Canadians to figure out why computers and technology were relevant to our work and personal lives through their work at The Computer Paper, and it sounds like they had a lot of fun doing it. Here's a bit of what I learned from talking to them about their experiences.

"In the early days of The Computer Paper, it seemed like about 10 per cent of the population even knew what a computer was," Doug Alder, the original founder of The Computer Paper recalls.

"It was a very small community, you would see the same faces at the user groups, in the stores, using the bulletin boards to talk to each other. These were the hardcore geeks. Remember, in these days you still had to walk to the Internet," Alder says jokingly. "It was called a library. Every bit of information about computers was snapped up quickly by this hardcore group."

Alder formed The Computer Paper not long after joining a spiritual group and converting to Sikhism. In the early 1980s he moved from Toronto out to British Columbia, where he was raised, and soon committed to a plan to form his own computer publication. He was already fascinated with the capabilities of the first line of Macintosh computers and had bought his own Mac Plus while in school studying for'his, MBA. A friend who showed him the free technology papers that were being distributed in California at the time such as Micro Times and Computer Currents really opened his eyes to the potential that a "Computer Paper" would have in Canada. In 1988, the magazine was born.

"It moved from humble beginnings with basically my wife Kathryn and I creating that first issue on our kitchen table, to a staff of over 70 people when I left the company in 1997. It was an amazing time," Alder says. "The people that I met, our customers and the staff that assembled made most days a joy to show up at work."

It's hard to imagine a more ideal job for someone so enthusiastic about the potential of technology than the one Alder created for himself when he created The Computer Paper.

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was such a lucky guy to stumble upon the idea of creating a national chain of local computer publications. It all happened at the right time. The industry was in double digit growth, there was a vacuum for information on the products and we were lucky enough to be there to fill the void. We were like kids in a candy store.

This was probably the best job I ever had."

That enthusiasm is similarly echoed by David Tanaka, who took over the editorship of The Computer Paper when Alder left the company in '97.

"Before I started at TCP I worked for a trade paper in Toronto called Computer Dealer News. That was my first job after journalism school, so when I started at TCP I was quite shocked by what I perceived to be the crudeness of it," Tanaka says of the fact that the magazine was free and on low-cost newsprint. "But I soon discovered that it was honest and had integrity. And I think that's what the readers liked about it."

Tanaka also got his editorial debut at The Computer Paper and saw the magazine through its peak years of national distribution with regional magazines that carried the Computes! suffix.

"We had Vancouver Computes!, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa... However, by this time the new owners were pressing for something beyond the computer fanzines that TCPand the. Computes! franchises represented," Tanaka says of the need to broaden readership even then. "Expand the audience beyond the 18- to 45-year-old male geek, that was the directive."

Introducing HUB: Digital Living, intended as the evolution of The Computer Paper, was Tanaka's last act with the company. "[That magazine] became the vehicle to move us beyond pure computing and into the digital world that was unfolding before us."

David Tanaka semi-retired, and at about the same time Piccolo Publishing acquired the rights to publish HUB: Digital Living. Scott Piccolo, owner and president of Piccolo Publishing reflects on those wild, transitional years.

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Piccolo says that those years were hectic and crazy, but enjoyable on the whole.

"It's allowed me to be a part of a bit of Canadian history," he says. "At this point it's the longest running and the only free computer paper around and I'd like to see it kept alive for 20 more years."

Shortly after Tanaka stepped down as editor of The Computer Paper (which had now remodelled itself as HUB: Digital Living). This made way for long-time TCP senior editor Megan Johnston to take the reigns, followed by Andrew Moore-Crispin.

"I was editing Total Gamer Magazine at the time which was Piccolo Publishing's first magazine and my first entry as an editor," Moore-Crispin recounts. "Before that I interned at CanadaComputes.com which was the website for The Computer Paper and the Computes! publications."

I asked Andrew how he did it — much a I did a year ago when I first started — and he told me how he managed to deal with the stress of being a new editor of a magazine that has a broad reach and high expectations.

"Late nights, a lot of late nights," he says with a laugh. "And a lot of help from the contributors," he adds. "When you get down to it I guess I was young to be running a magazine... but I'd have been an idiot not to take that opportunity, and it worked out.

And I think I did a pretty good job."

Even before-taking the job Moore-Crispin knew what he was getting into. He'd spent quite a bit of time reading The Computer Paper while he was in Centennial College

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going to journalism school and was familiar with the paper even before he took over.

"I knew The Computer Paper was a big, big thing. In college it was dream of mine to work there, and to take the reins was pretty heavy... I lost a lot of sleep. My first • couple of weeks on the job were stressful, but it's amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it. You question 'am I ready, can I do this?' and then you just... do it."

And from there Moore-Crispin managed and edited HUB: Digital Living which would later be re-christened HUB: The Computer Paper. He maintains that while the first two months — the transition period between his taking over editorship from Megan Johnston — were tough, and the third month without Johnston's help was particularly difficult, it paid off in the long run.

"I still remember when we moved into our first actual office, right above a bar... a particularly loud bar," Moore-Crispin recalls. "And right through Thursday and Friday night production you would hear really loud music and feel it shaking the floors. My office was like a closet, very narrow. It was lined with shelves with games and press materials and all the stuff that you get with this job. It was also quite dark; Chris Cole, the Sales Manager at the time, dubbed it my Bat Cave."

Andrew has had a great deal of fun with this paper, as have I, and has have all of the former editors, to say nothing of all of the other contributors and those who have poured their energies into The Computer Paper and it's incarnations over the years.

"I think it's been a hell of a ride," Moore-Crispin says. "And while TCP's role has changed in the 20-plus years it's been published, it's still got something to say that people want to hear. But now only people that want to hear TCP will.

It's a 20-year legacy that has been through its up and downs and this is just another step in its evolution."

We've enjoyed our time here, serving you, our readers, and we hope that you've enjoyed waiting for each new issue of The Computer Paper to hit the streets each month. We all hope you choose to subscribe so we can turn the next page together.

Keep Computing!

Signed, Dorian Nicholson and the rest of your friends from The Computer Paper, the regional Computes! series, HUB: Digital Living, www.hubcanada.com and all of the other contributors over the years. It's been a blast!

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Software that Stands the Test of Time Dr. File Finder on a quarter century of software of us who work in computers. He decided to dedicate the .ZIP extension and file format specification to the public domain. That helped the .ZIP file format to become a truly open standard on a global scale. Phil Katz died in 2000, but his company, his product and his legacy live on.

Commander Keen In 1990 four guys with amazing talent were working for Softdisk, a game manufacturer. They were John Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall, and Adrian Carmack. The first game they released was "Commander Keen" which was distributed through Apogee Software. Commander Keen and the technologies developed by Carmack and Romero would change both the shareware and the games market forever. In 1991 they became id Software and the rest, as they say, is history. The id "engines" power some of the most popular games in the history of the PC. Games like Doom, Quake, and others have sold staggering numbers and "Doom" even became a movie. While only John Carmack is still part of id, the games go on.

WinZip In 1991, Nico Mak released the first copy of WinZip which was the first copy of "ZIP" for Windows. Because of the decision by Phil Katz to make it an open standard many "ZIP" programs followed. None of them, however, got the following that WinZip did.

Nearly every software site you'd visit would recommend you download WinZip to unpack their program. An amazing thing about WinZip is that they never really enforced the concept of having to register the program. Despite this fact WinZip became hugely successful. People paid for it despite the fact that they weren't really equired to. Ultimately, under Windows, WinZip became the program to use for

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The personal computer, or "PC," was released by IBM in in 1982. At the time there was very little software for the early users to run. It didn't take long, however, for programmers to take up the cause of the PC and begin coding. Over the 27 years since the PC was released I've seen literally tens of thousands of software programs come and go. Some appeared and quickly disappeared. Others had some success and then disappeared when they couldn't keep up with their competition. A very few, however, have not only survived, but prospered. I'll take a brief look at six such products. All of the products I'm looking at ran under DOS. Lotus 1-2-3 Lotus 1-2-3 was the brainchild of Mitch Kapor. Lotus 1-2-3 was the very first spreadsheet program for the PC and it was released in early 1983. It was Lotus that really got the PC a foothold in businesses. It was also the very first computer program to have television commercials. Lotus was immensely popular and powerful.

Eventually it was overtaken by Excel and it sputtered a bit when trying to go from DOS to Windows. Lotus was bought by IBM and now, 26 years later, it's a thriving part of Lotus SmartSuite.

PKZIP In 1985 the default method for compressing files wasARC by System Enhancement Associates. It created nice, neat ARC files. A 22-year-old fellow by the name of Phil Katz, however, thought compression could be better. Phil set about the task of making it that way. In 1986 Phil created his company, PKWARE, and released the first version of PKZIP. In the twenty-seven years that I've been evaluating software, this is the only product I've ever seen that became an "overnight sensation."

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Paint Shop Pro In 1992 a retiring airline pilot decided to create a little graphics program. The author was Bob Voight and the program at that time was called Paint Shop. It grew to became Paint Shop Pro. Paint Shop Pro became hugely popular because selling under the shareware marketing model it was very inexpensive compared to products like Photoshop. As time went on the program grew in functions and features. It grew in complexity and the company grew with it. A few years ago the company was purchased by Corel Corporation and Paint Shop Pro lives on.

The Computer Paper first hit the streets. Hundreds of thousands of software products released since that time. Most of them are gone. The ones that persevere are the ones that appeal most to the public, that offer the features their users want, and that find ways to adapt both the software and the way they do business.

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Smartdraw In 1994 a fellow named Paul Stannard approached me with his 'shareware" program, Smartdraw. It was a cool program for creating charts and such. I was the first reviewer to write a review of Smartdraw. It's interesting to me that my review is still available on the Smartdraw website. Paul listened to his customers and the company grew. Fifteen years later Smartdraw has many employees and is used by half of the Fortune 500 companies.

Longevity Out of these six programs all ran under DOS. Of these six programs, five were released under the "shareware" marketing model. Only Lotus 1-2-3 wasn't. Of these six programs only one was created by more than one person. Namely, Commander Keen from id Software. These people and these products showed the ability to adapt. To adapt to the change from DOS to Windows and some even to Linux. To adapt to the changing market. In the 1980s and early 1990s the Internet wasn't even a factor. These product changed and adapted to fit new markets and new users. They expanded and grew and their work is still with us today.

Is there a moral? Well, if there is I think it's that thousands of software programs can be released, but only a very few will continue on and on. These are the programs and the people behind them who can adapt to changing times and changing situations. Think about it. 27 years since the PC was released. 21 since

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Landing a Dream Job Duane Hass, Webmaster, on the HUB: The Computer Paper metamorphosis brother owned an Apple store and he always had the coolest new computers.

Of course, the love of computers and the love of technology tend to go hand in hand. It is the nature of the beast, the yin to the yang, the peanut butter with ketchup... well, the jury's still out on that last one. Like many kids growing up in the 70s and early 80s, I was fascinated by the world of consumer electronics and the increasingly accessible products that came along with it. Many nights were spent building gadgets with kits from Radio Shack — and then of course deconstructing and rebuilding them into Frankengadgets.

While some people like to browse through clothing stores, or home decorating stores, or hardware stores to look at what's available — whether they are in the market to buy or not — for me it was computer and electronic stores. I could spend a whole day just popping in and seeing GOY where hard drive capacities had ballooned to, or prices had fallen to, or what features the newest GPU boasted. Even though there were more and more such stores it could take a bit of time and energy and leave a person feeling quite drained at the end of the day.

And then I found The Computer Paper. One day, while in a mall, I happened by a newspaper stand with a stack of magazines proclaiming that they could scratch my itch for technological information. I grabbed 11 0 11 � t one, tucked into my backpack and went home. Less than one minute in, Iwas sold. Cover to cover, this ;',1 448 Od-o f wonderous publication held my 40 P e g n : e q interest and gave me hours of .2 1 c, G e e o e c reading. Interesting articles, tech tips, pLt""hl. cutting edge information and ads.

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Ilove computers and technology. I have always loved computers and technology. My first real work experience was cutting lawns so that I could save enough money for the newly-released Commodore VIC20. Prior to that, my friend and I would write computer programs in BASIC, which we would then execute verbally at recess, taking turns being the computer or user (yes, I am aware how nerdy that sounds.) The VIC20 was replaced when my parents bought me a Commodore 64 which eventually turned into an x86 based PC, and so on, and so on. I often used to offer to babysit for a neighbor — not because I was the nurturing, care-giving sort, but rather because his

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Sadly, one day I was no longer able to find HUB in its regular location. It seemed that my area was no longer being distributed to. Of course, had this story ended there, it would be decidedly tragic. Would I do that to you? Of course not.

During the course of my career as a Web Application Developer I had come into contact with Scott Piccolo, who needed some work done on the website www.hubcanada.com. While gathering the usual information from him it didn't take me long to realize that the website he needed work done to was the companion to none other than HUB: The Computer Paper! THIS was how early settlers heading west felt when they finally saw the blue of the Pacific. THIS was how Neil Armstrong felt when his life's work culminated with one small step. THIS was how Luke felt when Darth Vader spoke those fateful five words to him... (I am beginning to think I should quit after two comparisons.)

The few website touch-ups eventually grew into a fulltime position for me at Piccolo Publishing. It seemed like a very good fit. I didn't have to learn to like my job — everything that I liked was my job. Of course it's not all fun and games, and the current transition is an example of having to grow along with an ever-changing world. However we have many great things in the works for both the paper, and the website which we truly believe our loyal readership will find enhances not only their experience as readers, but expands the relationship symbiotically as we try to provide helpful services that are beyond what people have come to expect.

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The (really) Last Byte Andrew Moore-Crispin signs off with a reflection on what TCP means to 'him The Computer Paper and all its many editions: East, West, Central, Greater Toronto and others too numerous to mention. HUB: Digital Living, HUB: The Computer Paper and its regional editions in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver and elsewhere.

By any name, The Computer Paper has touched a lot of people over its more than 20-year history. Not least of all, me.

Iserved as Editor-in-Chief of HUB: The Computer Paper,, starting when it was called HUB: Digital Living. In fact, I was laid off from Canada Computer Paper when the move from The Computer Paper to HUB: Digital Living was first enacted in, if memory serves, August, 2003. I was brought back on board some nine-months later when Piccolo Publishing got the license to publish the mag.

When I first started working with TCP, I was a fresh-faced graduate of the Centennial College Journalism—Print program. I graduated in the "digital age" but still in the days when you could go to school to study print journalism. On my resume, which has seen its share of updates over the years, I don't bother with the"—Print" suffix under the Education heading. It's too old-school. Consider the fact that Igraduated in 2001 and it just goes to show how much things have changed in less than a decade. With that in mind, think how much has changed in the more than two decades since The Computer Paper was started.

Which segues nicely into a discussion of why we're donning the rose-coloured retrospective glasses in this, the 20th anniversary issue of HUB: The Computer Paper, albeit a year too late. As you have read in the previous pages, this is the last issue of HUB: The Computer Paper as we have known it. The free street box, library and computer / electronics store distribution model can no longer be sustained. HUB: The Computer Paper is going subscription only.

The paper was started by Doug Alder who, as we've also heard elsewhere in this issue, began publishing TCP in February, 1988. The Computer Paper was born on a kitchen table after Alder saw the computer magazines that were gaining momentum in the San Francisco Bay area. It's as logical a place as any to start a print publication dedicated to quite possibly the biggest evolution in human history, the lOwly computer. The first issue hit the streets in February 1988. From humble beginnings, it enjoyed huge growth, buoyed by an unprecedented and, up to that point, unserved group of budding computer and technology enthusiasts.

Myown involvement with The Computer Paper started in my lait year of the aforementioned Journalism—Print program, which I feel duty-bound to say is an excellent program with an excellent faculty. And which also featured a web component that was of great interest to me (www.tobserver.com). I was approaching the internship phase, undertaken in the last semester of the last year of the three-year progrdm. We were asked to list our top five choices for where we'd like to intern. I chose, in no particular order: The Computer Paper, Toronto Computes!, CanadaComputes.com, along with two other options that I can't remember and that I picked only to round out the requisite five choices. Little did I know that my top three picks were actually part of a greater whole: Canada Computer Paper, erstwhile publisher of The Computer Paper.

And they were all run out of the same office in downtown Toronto.

I got a haircut, some new clothes and a portfolio case to show my newspaper clippings and web print-outs along with abunch of 8 x 10 pictures I'd taken as Photo Editor of the college newspaper and went for my interview. The next 38 H U B : TheComputerPaper - April 2009

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week, I started on what turned out to be a fateful path as intern Staff Writer for CanadaComputes.com, approximately one year after the dot-com bubble reached critical mass and shortly after the CanadaComputes.com staff that used to number in the 20s was slashed to one. Two, if yOu included this new, unpaid intern. The other member of staff was Jessica Malone, to whom I owe a great deal of thanks... and who I still occasionally meet for lunch to catch up.

Several years and an untold number of printed pages later, I'm happy to be asked back to help out with this The Computer Paper send-off.

The publication has grown and shrunk, changed and evolved over its 20 plus years. Its covered the growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web, its covered every edition of Windows that has come out from 2.0 through Windows 7, along with alternative operating systems, many of which it turns out were destined for obscurity. TCP documented the rise•of the laptop computer from luggable to expensive luxury to business staple to mass market availability and acceptance. Monitored the rise of the BlackBerry from two-way paging curiosity to one of Canada's biggest tech successes. The PDA from palm-sized organizer to do-it-all smartphone. As both Sean Carruthers and Doug Alder hint elsewhere in this issue, The Computer Paper was the resource for Canadian tech buyers. Before web searches, before online became organized and monetized.

The Computer Paper predates big-box electronics retailers.

It predates Google, it certainly predates Facebook, Twitter, Friendster et al.

It predates the web as we know it.

Now, more than 20 years after it started, HUB: The Computer Paper has reached another stage in its metamorphosis. This is the last issue of HUB: The Computer Paper you'll pick up from a street box. Its not necessarily the last issue of HUB: The Computer Paper you'll see though. If you're interested in getting HUB: The Computer Paper, the team that works on the publication wants to make sure you can. If you express interest in subscribing by signing up at www.hubcanada.com/subscribe, HUB: The Computer Paper will continue to publish and you'll continue to receive it each month.

It's been a great ride. For my part, I'd like to thank everyone that has contributed to TCP's 20+ year history and to this issue: Doug Alder for having the foresight to start it, Graeme Bennett for helping to organize it, David Tanaka for welcoming me into it, Jessica Malone for giving me a chance and acting as a mentor early in my careers and last but not least, Dorian Nicholson for helping to continue the legacy. I'd also like to say a sincere thanks to Scott Piccolo for handing me the editorial reigns when I was probably too green to hold them properly, Steve Stoner for making us. look good and for being a great colleague and friend as well the too many people to mention that have shaped this paper over its 20+ years.

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